#Art
Drowning Ophelia by Sir John Everett Milais (1851) was based on Shakespeare's play Hamlet.

Mad with grief after her father's murder by Hamlet, her lover, she allows herself to die after falling into a stream. The flowers she holds are symbolic: the poppy means death, daisies innocence and pansies unrequited love.

Elizabeth Siddal posed for Ophelia in a bath of water kept warm by lamps underneath.